papa americanooooo

it's been way too long since i've regularly updated this!! ugh

but really not much has happened lately....i've been sick since the first week we were here...so it's been almost 7 weeks now...i got a little better for maybe 2 weeks and now my cough is back, especially at night. i've been waking up every night this past week coughing a bunch. annnnnd my right side like where my ribs are hurts in one place..i don't know what i did to it! i'm seriously thinking it may be because of all of the coughing lol. i'll be sick the whole time im here...perfectly fine.

i'm going to ireland next weekend!! leaving the 4th. sooooooo very excited. i've heard it's absolutely gorgeous. and i also found out that the blarney stone is like a 10 minutes bus ride from cork, so i'm super pumped for that!!

also, i can't believe how fast this is going. we have this week, then 3 weeks of november, then excursion to the south, the boom! finals and we leave. so so so crazy. but i'm also pretty excited to go home :)

we met some spanish girls the other night who i'm fb friends with now. they were really cool and we're hoping to actually hang out with them again. it's so frustrating that we keep meeting people one night and then never see them again.

ok so my madre's cooking. i know i complained alot about it at the beginning saying how much she stuffed me and everything..but now it's the opposite! she isn't feeding me nearly as much now. i think i'd rather have it the other way around! even so, i'm still getting awesome food. i feel really lucky to have such a great cook for my madre. she makes tortilla espanola, paella that is way more excellent than any other paella i've had here, french fries!!, little hamburgers (without the buns) but they're seasoned so well!, lomo which is a part of a pig or cow i forget which one but its awesome, salad with oil big chunks of tomato and pomegranate seeds, this pasta dish with all kinds of seafood in it that is excellent!....ahhh as much as i miss american food, i'm gonna miss her cooking so much when i leave!!

one more thing in this mezcla of a blog....we have membership to the gym here, and they have classes there, so on friday i went with a few of the girls to a class called body combat. omgggggg it was insanely cool! it was hardcore nonstop punching and kicking and running and jumping for an hour. it was so hardcore and i was sooooooo sore all weekend, but it was awesome and i felt so good! and the music was sick too. definitely going to be doing that class a couple times a week now :)

haley